Lighting-fixture.



F. P. SGHOEN HARDT. LIGHTING FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8, 1913.

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MILLER 65 COMPANY, OF NECTICUT.

OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR' TO EDWARD MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, -ACQRPORATION OF GON- LIGHTING-FIXTURE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FERDINAND P. SCHOENHARDT,a citizen of the United States, residing. at Meriden, New Haven county,State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Lighting-Fixtures-of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The present invention relates to the type of suspended lighting fixtureswherein translucent surfaces are utilized to reflect light against awall or ceiling and at the same time itself transmit a difi'used glow,the translucent substancebeing embodied in a bowl or tray shapedstructure within and above which the lamp, bulb or other source of lightis located. Heretofore devices of this character have been constructedin the main of a single piece of translucent fragile material requiringexpensive molding operations, and consequently being expensive toreplace in case of breakage.

The device of the presentinvention aims to provide a suspended fixtureof this general character wherein the translucent substance may Thearranged and furnished in sections carried by a suitable frame so thatevent of the breakage of one section, the whole structure does not haveto be removed.

The present device also provides a structure which is simple ineitsfundamental characteristics and which may be utilized as a basis for awide variation of design within the boundaries of the general typeemployed.

Que specific embodiment which my invention may take is illustrated inthe accompanying drawings and is described in the following detailedspecification taken in connection with said drawings.

In these drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a suspendedlighting fixture constructed in accordance with the present invention,part only of the suspending chains being shown. Fig. 2 is a transversevertical section of the fixture shown in Fig. 1, and on an enlargedscale, parts being broken away. Fig. 3'is a fragmentary perspective viewof part of the frame, the

glass panels being removed. Fig. 4 is a.

fragmentary view in elevation of the side of the frame taken from theinterior of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 3, 1913.

frame into a series of panels in position, the strips 3 .intended to besuspended Patented Mar. 17, 1914. Serial No. 798,850.

fixture. Fig. 5 illustrates an ornamental detail. The lighting fixtureshown in these drawlngs is in the form of a tray-like receptacle,containing a series of panels at the sides for translucent material, andhavinga translucent bot-tom. To this end I provide a frame, preferablyof metal, and formed of a horizontal angle ring piece'l having ahorizontal ledge or supporting flange 1 and forming the base of theframe; a horizontal upper ring 2 and a plurality of vertical strips orbands 3 which may be suitably connected to the horizontal rings as byrivets 3 and which divide the sides of the panels. The horizontal ledgeor shelf 1? of the bottom ring member is designed to support atranslucent surface or surfaces 15 made, for instance, of art glass.Th1s bottom may be of a single piece or may be formed of a series ofsections seated in a frame of suitable configuration, which frame willrest on the ledge 1. Between the vertical strips 3 forming the panels, aseries of curved sections 5 of translucent material, as for instance theart glass before referred to, are inserted, the

lower edges of these sections resting on the upper face of the bottom 15of the fixture, and their adjacent edges being spaced apart bysuitablemeans, as for instance, by the rivets 3 In order to retain theseinserted are provided with tongues 4- arranged to be bent over the edgesof adjacent panels tolock the same against the inner faces of the framerings 1 and 2 and against the vertical strips. As panels rest upon theupper face of the bottom and as these panels are themselves held to theframe by the tongues 4, it will be evident that the bottom itself islikewise held in position. These tongues may be formed in .any suitablemanner, as for instance by a separate piece of flexible metal attachedto the inner face of the transverse strips and cut to provide tongues H,as shown clearly in Figs. 3 and act the drawmgs. v i

The frame with its translucent panels is from, and to lie room which itis One form of sustray is as follows:

adjacent, the ceiling of the desired to illuminate. pension means forthe ets 10 may ture attached thereto,

At a series of spaced intervals about the edge of the tray, I dispensewith the usual rivets 3? and provide hooked members 6 located on theinner edge of the tray and having threaded shanks 7' which extendthrough alined bores formed in the ring 2 and strips 3, and -are'lieldto the frame by means of ornamental nuts 8 screwing upon the threadedends of the shanks 7 which project beyond the outer face of the ring 2.The edges of adjacent panels 5 are pref erably cut away, as at 5, topcrmitthe insertion of the shank 7 of the suspending hooks and also topermit these hooks to be used as a means of clamping brackets 10 to theinterior of the frame. These brackbe of any suitable design, one formbeing shown in the drawings wherein the bracket is provided with a borethrough which the shank of the hook extends, and with a threaded stud 11at its opposite end to which a fixture carrying an electric bulb may besecured. The frame is, of course, suspended by means of chains 9 whoseend links may engage with the hooks 6 carried by the frame.

The panel 15 forming the bottom of the tray may have an exteriorornamental fixsuch, for instance, as an ornamental knob 12 having areduced threaded stem 12 inserted through an opening formed, say,centrally of the bottom panel 15 and engaged by a nut 13 at the innerside of the tray. A suitable rosette 14: may be carried and supported bythe knob 12 and rests against the under external face of the panel. Thisparticular attachment, however, forms no part of the present inventionand is merely referred toto show one commercial embodiment of thecompleted article.

It will, of course, be understood that the configuration of the framework and, therefore, of the tray, may vary widely and that the tray byno means is limited to a circular construction; also that the frame andthe panels may be widely varied in design and ornamentation, this lastapplying also to the minor detail features of ornamental construction.Nor do I wish to be limited to the specific means shown for supportingthe tray to the'ceiling and for the attachment of the lighting elementthereto, as this may var widely to suit different conditions anddesigns, I

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A reflecting lighting fixture of the character described comprising aframe work having an open top and a bottom opening therein and having aplurality of openings a covering for said bottom opensaid frame forsuptranslucent material in its sides, mg, means carried by portingsaidcovering,

carried by openings in the sides thereof, and means for retaining saidside and bottom covering on said frame.

2. A reflecting lighting fixture of the character described comprising aframe work having an open top and a bottom opening therein and having apluralit of openings in its sides, a covering for sai bottom open: ing,including translucent material, means carried bysaid frame work forengaging and supporting said covering, a plurality of separate panels oftranslucent material carried by said frame and, covering said sideopenings, and means for retaining said panels and said bottom on saidframe work.

3. A reflecting lighting fixture of the character described embodying anopen top frame work comprising side Walls having a plurality of openingstransversely extending supporting means adjacent the base, said basehaving an opening therein, a covering for said base opening supported bysaid transverse means, said covering including translucent material,other translucent material carried by the sides of said frame work andcovering the openings therein, and means for retaining said basecovering and said side covering on said frame work.

4:. A reflecting lighting fixture of the character described embodyingan open top frame work comprising sides having a plurality of openingstherein and thereabout and a transversely extending bottom flangeproviding a bottom opening for the frame, a covering for said bottomopening'resting upon said flange, said covering including translucentmaterial, a plurality of separate panels of translucent material carriedby the sides of said framework, and means for holding said panels tosaid frame work.

5.A reflecting lighting fixture of the character described embodying anopen top frame work comprising sides having a transverse flange adjacentthe base thereof and having apertures therein and thereabout, saidflange providing a bottom opening for the frame, a covering for saidbottom opening supported by said flange and composed, at least in part,of translucent material, a plurality of separate panels of translucentmaterial seated over said bottom covering and covering the apertures inthe sides of saidframe, and means for detachably holding said panels tosaid frame sides.

6. A reflecting lighting fixture of the character described embodying anopen top frame work comprising upper and lower bands and a plurality oftransverse con necting strips thercbetwecn providing a series ofopi-nings in the sides of the frame, F the lower of said bands beingprovided adjacl'nt its bottom edge with a transversely said frame workand covering the therein and having .extendingfiange providing a bottomopening frame, said transverse strips being provided for the frameWithin said flange, a bottom Wit means for spacing sald panels and 10covering composed, at least in part, of transmeans for holding saidpanels against said lucent material seated over said flange, a handsandconnecting strips.

5 plurality of separate panels of translucent FERDINAND-P. SOHOENHARDT.material seated over said bottom covering Witnesses: adjacent its edgesand covering the openings I XV. C. HoMAN, between transverse strips ofthe sides of the E. H. VVEBER.

